Topic :: CPS Preventative Services
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- Recent data show that nearly half of American children – 35 million kids – had at least one Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE) — traumas and exposure that can have devastating, long-term effects on children’s health and well-being that extend far into adulthood. Dr. Claire Brindis, Co-Project Director of the AYAH Center, contributed to the September special issue of Academic Pediatrics…
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- The Teens Increasing Preventive Services (T.I.P.S.) program was an intervention to improve delivery of clinical preventive services, such as screening and counseling rates for risky health behaviors, including tobacco use, to adolescents at their annual health care provider visit. The program was implemented by UCSF Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine in partnership with a large HMO. The program…
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- This report by NAHIC and Child Trends presents a research-based case for why adolescents need health care services. The report presents recommendations from leading medical authorities on what specific health care services adolescents need and how these services can best be provided. Data on the proportion of adolescents currently receiving needed services and an examination of the barriers preventing some…
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- This study by researchers in the Division of Adolescent Medicine sought to 1) identify existing adolescent and adult clinical preventive services guidelines relevant to the young adult age group; 2) review, compare, and synthesize these guidelines, with emphasis on the extent to which professional guidelines are consistent with evidence-based guidelines developed by the USPSTF; and 3) recommend next steps in…
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- This article examines rates and disparities in access to preventive care and receipt of recommended preventive services among adolescents. Research reveals very low rates of preventive visits, especially for the poor and uninsured, and low rates of receipt of recommended preventive services. Please view the abstract here: PEDIATRICS, Charles E. Irwin, Jr, Sally H. Adams, M. Jane Park, and Paul…
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- This classic document from 2001 defines clinical preventive services for adolescents, presents professional recommendations, and examines the rationale for providing a comprehensive set of clinical preventive services to teens. It explores barriers to the delivery of this care, as well as promising strategies for reducing these barriers, and looks at the extent to which this care is now being delivered.…
University of California San Francisco
